ESA (The European Space Agency), has launched a satellite named Giove-A from Kazakhstan's Baiknour Space Center on Wednesday December 28 aboard a
Soyuz rocket. The Galileo project, which aims to put up as many as 30 such satellites into orbit, plans to provide unprecedented navigational
accuracy.
news.bbc.co.uk
In few years' time, a small Galileo chip will be integrated in mobile phones, giving users the ability to pinpoint restaurants, hotels, movie
theatres, hospitals or car parks.
Galileo will deliver the tools national governments need to introduce wide-scale road charging.
The network will also underpin Europe's new air-traffic control system. The single European sky initiative will overhaul current technologies used to
keep planes at safe separations, and allow pilots to fly their own routes and altitudes.
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I think this is an excellent example of the progress achieved in technology. It will be neat to see where this takes us in the future in terms of
precision and availibility. Will conventional forms of navigation such as maps become outdated? We'll just have to wait and see.
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[edit on 28-12-2005 by Liquidus]
